impossible_idiot



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    "By themselves those impressions wouldn’t be enough to trigger this inkling of… wrongness clinging to Vash like desert dust. For how prone he is to depressive mood swings, Vash smiles often and everywhere. No matter if he’s getting shot at, betrayed, kicked to the dirt and spit on — he picks himself up and laughs and keeps going, keeps outrunning the shadow of his brother towards a perpetually uncertain horizon.

    Nobody wears fake cheer that well without something to hide."

    Glimpse by glimpse, the gang pieces together who Vash the Stampede really is.

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    18 Sep 2026

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    “You know how cats purr?” Vash says finally. “Like when they’re happy or stre—”

    “You’re purring because you got stabbed? Christ, Blondie, I knew you were a masochist but—”

    “Not like that! Let me finish!”

    Or, cats purr when they feel happy and safe or are in pain and need to self-soothe. Vash does the same. But Vash doesn’t have many moments where he feels happy and safe, so Wolfwood and Meryl only ever hear him purr when he’s injured or hurting. The first time they hear him purr from happiness, they panic.

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    17 Sep 2026

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    The air was too warm for the covers, but it was pleasant enough, and, before long, Vash felt his eyes slip closed. Wolfwood’s breath was even, the rise and fall of his chest rhythmic and soothing, and Vash found himself slipping away into sleep.

    Something was wrong.

    Vash opened his eyes and began to sit up - and heard a gunshot.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    Brad didn't do right by Vash when he was a kid. The least he can do is try to make up for it now, when his boy comes Home with new friends and a busted arm and the weight of the world on his shoulders.

    A longer look at the arm maintenance scene in E9 - Millions Knives.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    They always come and get him, no matter how tired he is, no matter how long it takes to rouse him. He understands, and never begrudges them for it. The Plants are important, and Vash is an important part of fixing them.

    But sometimes, treacherously, he wishes they would try to handle the problem on their own, that they would let him sleep. 

    Healing a Plant, for Vash, means taking its pain away. But that pain has to go somewhere, and he is the only Plant who is able to take it.

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    04 Sep 2026